Her death certificate #13259 says Olivia's parents were Preston Vivion, and Sarah Stevens.
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Mrs. Olivia Dysart, widow of the late Dr. B. G. Dysart, Monroe county's noted physician and surgeon, died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. C. R. Noel, in Paris Saturday night and the remains were buried from the home Tuesday afternoon with funeral services by Rev. Allen. Prior to the brief discourse on the lesson for the living contained in the beautiful live lived by Mrs. Dysart. Rev. Allen read the Ninety-first psalm, which was her favorite, and at the close read her favorite poem, Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar."
Deceased was born in Saline county in 1835, being in her 79th year, was first married to Jack Ragsdale, and upon his death following the war to Dr. B. G. Dysart, surgeon of Cockrell's brigade of the Confederate army, who had located in Paris. To the first union were born one son, Frank V. Ragsdale, who survives his mother. Charles Dysart, the only child born of the second marriage, died in boyhood.
Beautiful in mind, heart and body, gracious in every relation of life, Olivia Vivion was the lady born and the finest example of all that constitutes a real aristocrat Paris has ever known. She was a picture, vivified until death set its seal upon her, out of a past in which sympathy, tact, kindness and the gentle breeding that exemplified itself in a broadly democratic attitude were the rule. Even at 79, and despite disease, she was beautiful and gracious. The buoyancy of youth was here to the last, and with it an active interest in all that youth did. She compelled love, for her fine mannered bearing toward others and the keen sympathy she at all times exhibited were born of the heart and were in no sense an outward veneer. She impacted them unconsciously to all who came in contact with her, even to the great grand children at her knee. Couple such qualities with a brilliant mind, an imagination enriched from every possible source, and a faith fixed in Christian resolution, and the woman the world most loves to honor results. Tradition says that she was a belle in her youth and for once tradition is correct. We know it, for she was a belle in her age, a gentlewoman to the end, "the beautiful lady," such as little Alice saw, who came to us as a wraithe out of a beloved past. Even death was kind to one so good and and she went to sleep peacefully and unracked, amid flowers and friends, as a lady should. May we not also hope that a great faith has found fruition in some fair land of healing beyond, that after sunset star and evening call is no dusk, but the light of eternal stay.
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society & Museum)
Thanks to contributor Pam Witherow (47364463), for sending this obituary.
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Mrs. Olivia Dysart, widow of the late Dr. B. G. Dysart, Monroe county's noted physician and surgeon, died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. C. R. Noel, in Paris Saturday night and the remains were buried from the home Tuesday afternoon with funeral services by Rev. Allen. Prior to the brief discourse on the lesson for the living contained in the beautiful live lived by Mrs. Dysart. Rev. Allen read the Ninety-first psalm, which was her favorite, and at the close read her favorite poem, Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar."
Deceased was born in Saline county in 1835, being in her 79th year, was first married to Jack Ragsdale, and upon his death following the war to Dr. B. G. Dysart, surgeon of Cockrell's brigade of the Confederate army, who had located in Paris. To the first union were born one son, Frank V. Ragsdale, who survives his mother. Charles Dysart, the only child born of the second marriage, died in boyhood.
Beautiful in mind, heart and body, gracious in every relation of life, Olivia Vivion was the lady born and the finest example of all that constitutes a real aristocrat Paris has ever known. She was a picture, vivified until death set its seal upon her, out of a past in which sympathy, tact, kindness and the gentle breeding that exemplified itself in a broadly democratic attitude were the rule. Even at 79, and despite disease, she was beautiful and gracious. The buoyancy of youth was here to the last, and with it an active interest in all that youth did. She compelled love, for her fine mannered bearing toward others and the keen sympathy she at all times exhibited were born of the heart and were in no sense an outward veneer. She impacted them unconsciously to all who came in contact with her, even to the great grand children at her knee. Couple such qualities with a brilliant mind, an imagination enriched from every possible source, and a faith fixed in Christian resolution, and the woman the world most loves to honor results. Tradition says that she was a belle in her youth and for once tradition is correct. We know it, for she was a belle in her age, a gentlewoman to the end, "the beautiful lady," such as little Alice saw, who came to us as a wraithe out of a beloved past. Even death was kind to one so good and and she went to sleep peacefully and unracked, amid flowers and friends, as a lady should. May we not also hope that a great faith has found fruition in some fair land of healing beyond, that after sunset star and evening call is no dusk, but the light of eternal stay.
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society & Museum)
Thanks to contributor Pam Witherow (47364463), for sending this obituary.
Her death certificate #13259 says Olivia's parents were Preston Vivion, and Sarah Stevens.
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Mrs. Olivia Dysart, widow of the late Dr. B. G. Dysart, Monroe county's noted physician and surgeon, died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. C. R. Noel, in Paris Saturday night and the remains were buried from the home Tuesday afternoon with funeral services by Rev. Allen. Prior to the brief discourse on the lesson for the living contained in the beautiful live lived by Mrs. Dysart. Rev. Allen read the Ninety-first psalm, which was her favorite, and at the close read her favorite poem, Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar."
Deceased was born in Saline county in 1835, being in her 79th year, was first married to Jack Ragsdale, and upon his death following the war to Dr. B. G. Dysart, surgeon of Cockrell's brigade of the Confederate army, who had located in Paris. To the first union were born one son, Frank V. Ragsdale, who survives his mother. Charles Dysart, the only child born of the second marriage, died in boyhood.
Beautiful in mind, heart and body, gracious in every relation of life, Olivia Vivion was the lady born and the finest example of all that constitutes a real aristocrat Paris has ever known. She was a picture, vivified until death set its seal upon her, out of a past in which sympathy, tact, kindness and the gentle breeding that exemplified itself in a broadly democratic attitude were the rule. Even at 79, and despite disease, she was beautiful and gracious. The buoyancy of youth was here to the last, and with it an active interest in all that youth did. She compelled love, for her fine mannered bearing toward others and the keen sympathy she at all times exhibited were born of the heart and were in no sense an outward veneer. She impacted them unconsciously to all who came in contact with her, even to the great grand children at her knee. Couple such qualities with a brilliant mind, an imagination enriched from every possible source, and a faith fixed in Christian resolution, and the woman the world most loves to honor results. Tradition says that she was a belle in her youth and for once tradition is correct. We know it, for she was a belle in her age, a gentlewoman to the end, "the beautiful lady," such as little Alice saw, who came to us as a wraithe out of a beloved past. Even death was kind to one so good and and she went to sleep peacefully and unracked, amid flowers and friends, as a lady should. May we not also hope that a great faith has found fruition in some fair land of healing beyond, that after sunset star and evening call is no dusk, but the light of eternal stay.
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society & Museum)
Thanks to contributor Pam Witherow (47364463), for sending this obituary.
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Mrs. Olivia Dysart, widow of the late Dr. B. G. Dysart, Monroe county's noted physician and surgeon, died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. C. R. Noel, in Paris Saturday night and the remains were buried from the home Tuesday afternoon with funeral services by Rev. Allen. Prior to the brief discourse on the lesson for the living contained in the beautiful live lived by Mrs. Dysart. Rev. Allen read the Ninety-first psalm, which was her favorite, and at the close read her favorite poem, Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar."
Deceased was born in Saline county in 1835, being in her 79th year, was first married to Jack Ragsdale, and upon his death following the war to Dr. B. G. Dysart, surgeon of Cockrell's brigade of the Confederate army, who had located in Paris. To the first union were born one son, Frank V. Ragsdale, who survives his mother. Charles Dysart, the only child born of the second marriage, died in boyhood.
Beautiful in mind, heart and body, gracious in every relation of life, Olivia Vivion was the lady born and the finest example of all that constitutes a real aristocrat Paris has ever known. She was a picture, vivified until death set its seal upon her, out of a past in which sympathy, tact, kindness and the gentle breeding that exemplified itself in a broadly democratic attitude were the rule. Even at 79, and despite disease, she was beautiful and gracious. The buoyancy of youth was here to the last, and with it an active interest in all that youth did. She compelled love, for her fine mannered bearing toward others and the keen sympathy she at all times exhibited were born of the heart and were in no sense an outward veneer. She impacted them unconsciously to all who came in contact with her, even to the great grand children at her knee. Couple such qualities with a brilliant mind, an imagination enriched from every possible source, and a faith fixed in Christian resolution, and the woman the world most loves to honor results. Tradition says that she was a belle in her youth and for once tradition is correct. We know it, for she was a belle in her age, a gentlewoman to the end, "the beautiful lady," such as little Alice saw, who came to us as a wraithe out of a beloved past. Even death was kind to one so good and and she went to sleep peacefully and unracked, amid flowers and friends, as a lady should. May we not also hope that a great faith has found fruition in some fair land of healing beyond, that after sunset star and evening call is no dusk, but the light of eternal stay.
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society & Museum)
Thanks to contributor Pam Witherow (47364463), for sending this obituary.
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